Bed-spring.



J. H. DYETT.

BED SPRING.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 20, 1915.

1,274,397. Patented Aug. 6, 1918.

[nae/773K UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. DYETT, 0F BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 HARD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

BED-SPRING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented A11 6, 1918.

Application filed January 20, 1915. Serial No. 3,415.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. Drn'r'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bed-Springs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bed springs or spring bed bottoms and has for its object to provide a bed spring composed of sections which together form a full size bed spring and one of which sections is adapted to be turned horizontally to diiferent positions relative to the other section and to the bed so as to distribute the wear and strain throughout a greater area of the bed spring and thus lengthen the life and maintain the comfort of the spring.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary plan view of a bed spring embodying the invention showing the same in position on a bedstead frame.

Fig. 2 isa longitudinal sectional elevation thereof in line 2-2, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary transverse section thereof in line 3-3, Fig. 1.

The bed spring is composed of two sections A and B which are supported on the bedstead in the same horizontal plane, end to end, lengthwise of the bedstead. The main section A is substantially square, or of such dimensions longitudinally and transversely that it can be supported on the bedstead with either its side edges or its end edges parallel with the side rails C of the bedstead, thus making it possible to turn the section and use it in any one of four different positions on the bedstead. The other section B is of suitable Width transversely of the bed to enable it to be supported on the side rails C of the bedstead, while lengthwise of the bed it is of su'tlicient length to form with the section A a full length bed spring.

The bed spring shown is of the spiral spring type in which the yielding support for the mattress is afforded by upright spiral or coil springs, the invention being particularly suited to this type of bed springs, and each section of the bed spring comprises a lower rectangular frame D provided with parallel slats or bars d on which the spiral springs. E are supported in rows, and an upper rectangular frame or marginal rod F which surrounds the group of spiral springs and to which the upper ends of the springs are tied or attached in some usual 01' suitable way to retain the springs and the upper frame F in the intended relation and distribute the weight supported by the bed spring, which may bear only on a restricted portion thereof, over a considerable portion of the area of the bed spring. Except as to the size and shape thereof, the individual sections A and B can be constructed substantially like a single-piece bed spring of this spiral spring type.

G G (i Gr represent supporting bars arranged at the foursides of the main or square section A of the bed spring, each parallel with the adjacent side of the section. The main or square spring section A can be placed, as shown in Fig. 1, so that it will be supported by the bars G G at the opposite sides thereof resting on the side rails C of the bedstead, or it can be turned so that it will be supported by the bars G G at the remaining sides or ends thereof resting on the side rails C. The section A can therefore be turned and supported on the bedstead in any one of four different positions, thereby enabling a weak or sagged portion of the spring section to be located at either side or at the foot or middle portion of the bed, as may be desired to increase the comfort of the bed spring or equalize the wear thereon. Furthermore, the sections A and B can, if desired, be interchanged so that either section can be used at the head or foot end of the bed.

H H represent similar supporting bars arranged at the opposite side edges of the small section B of the bed spring and adapted to rest on the side rails of the bedstead for supporting this section.

Each of the supporting bars Gr-Gr is connected to the adjacent side bar of the lower frame D of the bed spring section A by parallel swinging links 1 pivoted to the frame bar and to the supporting bar, whereby the supporting bar is maintained always parallel with the side rail of the bedstead but can be moved toward or from the frame bar as may be required to support the bed spring section on bedsteads which differ somewhat in width or to enable the bed spring to be used with wooden bedsteads in which the spring sets down between the side rails of the bedstead. The parallel links 9' are preferably ben as shown, so as to locate the supporting bars GG in a horizontal plane aboaie the plane of the lower frame of the bed spring and therebyenable the bed spring to be supported at a lower level.

The supporting bars H H for the smal section are similarly connected for a likepurpose to the lower frame of this section by swinging parallel links h. l I claim as my invention 1.. A bed spring composed of separate sec tions each comprising a frame and springs mounted thereon,-one of said sections being substantially squarewhereby said section is adapted 'to be turned and arranged on a bedstead with either'dimens ion thereof extending lengthwise of the bed, and supporting members which are secured to the frame'of said square section at the four edges thereof and are adjustable toward and from said edges to fit and engage a bedstead for supporting said section thereon and which can be swunginto close proximity to the edges out of the way o'fthe other section. 2A bed spring composed of a plurality of sections'each comprising a flower frame and springs supported by said frame the dimension of one of said sections lengthwise .of the bed beingsubstantially' equal, toithe width of the bedstead with which the bed spring is to be used, and supporting members-secured to the lower frame of said section at the four edges thereof and located at an'eleva tion between said frame and-" ithe tops of said springs whereby said section can be placed on the bedstead with either.

dimension thereof extending lengthwise of the bedstead, the two supporting members whiolrare arranged lengthwise ofthebed being adapted to rest on the side rails of the bedstead and the other two supporting members being adapted to swing intoclo'se proximity to the transverse sides of saidiseotion to bring one side of said section intofclose relation to the other section toform *asubstantially continuous bed spring.

f WVitness my hand this 16th day \of January, 1915. I

r JAMES H. DYETT.

'lVitnesses D. IVAN 'PoME'RoY, F. E BAILEY,

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